Chapter 67: Please take care of me, brother
Once you enter a place like a gambling house, or become an accountant who deals with money, it will be difficult for you to be free again.
Moreover, with the thugs and the gambling houses as a deterrent, people who go in don't have the courage to do anything bad.
Xu Minghui knows his father too well.
He was all too aware of the weakness and incompetence of the man before him, and he knew full well that he didn't have the courage to do anything, so he could only close the door and vent his anger on his wife who was powerless to resist.
He would personally take him to a place where there would be no waves for the time being and hide him there.
Let him never become the bad apple in the house again.
Only in this way will the waves at home have a chance to calm down.
His mother, who was pushed to the brink of death, was still worried in her dreams that her younger brother, who was beaten for no reason, would have a chance to find peace.
He has to do this.
Uncle Xu understood what he meant as soon as he heard it, and immediately began to struggle violently.
Xu Minghui sighed with regret, and when he heard footsteps approaching outside the house, he decisively grabbed Uncle Xu's arm and smoothly moved the man who was huddled in the corner to the bed.
The thick quilt covered me and I couldn't see anything.
Xu Minghui quickly turned around and picked up the bowl of porridge. He picked up the spoon and put it to Uncle Xu's mouth and said, "Dad, this is the porridge that my sister-in-law has been cooking for a long time. Please have some."
Uncle Xu's face turned pale and he said nothing. Just then, Uncle Xu opened the door.
He stood at the door and frowned, looking at his second brother who was lying on the bed with an extremely ugly face, with a sarcastic expression.
"It's just a minor skin injury. Is it necessary to act so arrogantly?"
The old man who vomited blood got up, and the second sister-in-law and Sang Zhixia who jumped into the frozen river on a snowy night also recovered. Only the big man who thought he could do everything was still lying in bed, and even had to be chased to feed him a bite of food.
Second Uncle Xu moved his lips in annoyance and anxiety, but Xu Minghui smiled bitterly and said, "Third Uncle, you know my father's temper. At this moment, Third Uncle, please say less."
Uncle Xu didn't notice the unusual situation on the bed. He said with a dark face, "Why do you care so much about him?"
"Don't even think about him just being arrogant and refusing to eat. Even if he were to rush out and drown himself right now, that would be his own immeasurable merit!"
After he said that, he turned and left as if looking at her any longer would dirty his eyes.
"Your grandparents are back, and everything is ready in the main room. Stop bothering your father and come out to eat."
Xu Minghui said yes with a good-natured smile, put down the bowl of porridge, walked over and closed the door again, blocking out all sight, and picked up the spoon again.
"Father, you will die if you don't eat."
"You don't want to die either, right?"
He handed the spoon full of meat porridge to Uncle Xu's mouth with a smile on his face and said softly, "Eat some. I have to go over after you finish."
"It's not hot anymore, just eat it..."
Half a minute later, Xu Minghui walked out with the empty bowl of porridge.
In the yard, Xu Yu was bending over to pick up a bowl.
He glanced at the closed door with an unclear look in his eyes and said nothing.
Xu Minghui took the initiative to say: "The gambling house job is very good, thank you for considering it for me."
No matter where you go, there are very few people who can read and write nowadays, and even fewer who know how to take notes.
There are definitely more than these two places in the county town that can recruit two accountants at the same time, but the one Xu Yu brought back happened to have an option that Xu Minghui was extremely satisfied with.
If Xu Yu said that it was not intentional, he himself would not believe it.
Xu Yu remained silent, tacitly agreeing with Xu Minghui's statement. Just as he was about to pass by him, he heard Xu Minghui say in a low voice: "If there is nothing else to do at home, I probably won't be back for a while."
"My mother and Mingyang..."
He sighed helplessly and lowered his proud head, which was rare: "Please take care of me, big brother."
To him, everything that seemed absurd before his eyes was mostly unavoidable.
If he didn't know the personalities of Xu Yu and Sang Zhixia clearly, he would never have dared to turn himself into a cage to trap his biological father.
But he also knew that only by trapping the inappropriate people could there be more promising future.
He had to bow his head.
Xu Yu gave him an ambiguous look and said calmly, "They spend most of their time with your sister-in-law."
Sang Zhixia is not the type of person who makes things difficult for others.
Xu Minghui smiled silently when he heard that, closed his eyes and said, "I'll thank my sister-in-law."
Xu Yu left without saying a word.
Xu Minghui looked at the cotton shoes on his feet, which had clumsy stitching but were much thicker, and a dark look gradually appeared in the depths of his eyes.
Those who are blessed by God never seem to know how lucky they are...
With such a wife, how important is it to be the prince?
Xu Minghui entered the main hall one step behind Xu Yu. As soon as he entered the room, he noticed that the old man's face seemed not right.
He shook his head at Aunt Xu with a normal expression: "Mom, Dad is just in a bad mood, it's nothing serious."
Aunt Xu exhaled with difficulty and said nothing, but the old lady couldn't help it.
She anxiously peeked outside, frowned, and said, "Where's your dad? Why isn't he coming out to eat?"
Xu Minghui smiled bitterly and said, "My father said he had no appetite and didn't want to come out, but I brought him some cooked meat porridge, and he ate a whole bowl and planned to rest."
"How can we just drink porridge?"
The old lady stood up anxiously and said, "No, I have to go see him, in order to avoid..."
"sit down."
The old man suddenly spoke, and the old lady stood up abruptly.
She smiled awkwardly: "Grandpa, Minghui's father has been locked up in the house for a few days. He has been eating light meals and not going out. This is not a solution. I..."
"Is this why you gave him ten taels of silver to squander?"
The old man threw down his chopsticks, his face livid, and said, "Ten taels of silver! A full ten taels of silver!"
"Do you know how long ten taels of silver can keep the whole family busy? Do you know how much ten acres of land it can buy? Do you know how important his one-day squandering is to the whole family?!"
"If you hadn't been able to come up with the money when we went to buy the land today, how long would you have kept this secret from me?! How long would you have allowed this useless bastard to do whatever he wanted?!"
The old man was so angry that his breathing was uneven, but the meaning behind his words was clear enough for people to hear.
Sang Zhixia glanced at the guilty old lady, and a hint of understanding quickly flashed across her eyes.
She said that before, Uncle Xu was just selling charcoal, so where did he get the money to spend lavishly on prostitutes and drink in brothels? His extravagant behavior even reached the ears of the villagers.
It turns out that it was a subsidy given secretly by the old lady?
The old lady really felt sorry for him.
Sang Zhixia put a piece of meat into the bowl of Xu Mingyang, who was trembling with fear. "What are you afraid of when the adults are talking? Just focus on eating your meal."
Xu Mingyang's face turned pale as he nudged Sang Zhixia's side. Uncle Xu was annoyed when he saw this, but he still whispered, "Grandpa, the children are here."
It's not easy to embarrass the old lady in front of her grandchildren.
Xu Wenxiu also said awkwardly, "Yeah, thunder doesn't strike people while they're eating. No matter how big the problem is, we should wait until after dinner to discuss it."
"Yu'er, quickly pour your grandfather a glass of water to calm him down."
Xu Yu waited until the elder finished speaking before he stood up and supported the old man, whispering, "Grandfather, it's all over. Why are you angry now?"
"I think Grandmother was just being soft-hearted for a moment. It's not worth your anger. I'll let it go this time. Just don't do it again in the future."
The old man was secretly regretting that he couldn't suppress his anger, but when he heard Xu Yu's words of trying to calm things down, his anger instantly flared up again.
"A moment of softness? Why haven't you ever seen your grandmother soft-hearted towards others?"
Xu Yu was not the old lady's biological grandson, so the old man never intervened when she was occasionally biased.
But what about others?
Uncle Xu San was also her son, but because Uncle Xu San was raised by the old man and was not as close to her as the second uncle who was raised at her side, she focused all her attention on Uncle Xu Er.
In her eyes, it seemed that everyone except the second brother was not a human being, and everyone could be bullied at will, except the second brother who was the apple of her eye.
Since it was a matter of right and wrong for the old lady, Xu Yu could not say any more.
The old man's cold eyes swept across the old lady's face, and he sneered and said suddenly: "Forget it, since you can't be fair, then you can't be the head of this family."
"Yu'er's mother."
Xu Wenxiu sighed helplessly: "Grandpa, you..."
"After dinner, go get the account book and all the remaining money in the house. Clear it out today. From now on, the three of you sisters-in-law will jointly manage the household expenses. You won't have to check the accounts with the old lady anymore."
When the old lady heard the old man say he was going to buy land, she guessed that something bad was going to happen.
But she never expected that the old man would take away her housekeeper power in front of the whole family!
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